Local Authority Circulars
HELA Local Authority Circulars (LACs) advise and guide LAs health and safety enforcement officers on enforcement management and technical matters.
HELA circulars help to achieve consistent standards in health and safety enforcement between local authorities - and between local authorities and HSE.
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HELA LAC subject index
A - F
A
1. Access equipment
2. Accidents
5. Asbestos
- LAC Number 5/19: The level of risk from occupational exposure to asbestos: guidance for HSE and LA staff when responding to enquiries
- LAC Number 5/23: Inspection intervention on worker protection: asbestos duty to manage
C
94. Call centres
14. Cosmetic treatment
D
15. Dermatitis
- LAC Number 15/2: Inspection intervention 2007/8: Preventing work-related contact dermatitis in the catering industry
- LAC Number 15/3: Preventing dermatitis: intervention in the hair and beauty industries
E
18. Electrical equipment
- LAC Number 18/1: Cable joints and repairs
- LAC Number 18/2: Electrophoresis and associated equipment for laboratory use
- LAC Number 18/3: Portable electrical equipment in restricted Conductive locations
- LAC Number 18/4: Safety in electrical displays
19. Electricity
20. Emergency procedures
- LAC Number 20/2: Major incident response procedures
- LAC Number 20/3: Rope evacuation from mechanical handling equipment
21. Employment Law
22. Enforcement
- LAC Number 22/13: Incident Selection Criteria Guidance
- LAC Number 22/17: HSC's enforcement policy statement (revised January 2002) further guidance
- LAC Number 22/19: Formal cautions - HSE guidance
- LAC Number 22/20: HSE enforcement guide (England and Wales) and enforcement handbook Scotland
- LAC Number 22/21:. Amendment to the enforcement provisions of the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999 (COMAH)
- LAC Number 22/22: Changes to COMAH arising from CHIP 2008
23. Enforcing Authority
- LAC Number 23/13: Health and safety (enforcement authority) regulations 1998 - motor vehicle repair
- LAC Number 23/15: Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998: A-Z guide to allocation
- LAC Number 23/21: Better regulation: Regulatory bodies inspecting social care
- LAC Number 23/22: Management of the risk from falling trees
25. Escalators and Moving Walks
27. Fire and Explosions
28. First Aid
31. Food Industry
G - L
H
37. Hazardous substances
- LAC Number 37/11: Chemicals (hazard information and packaging for supplying) regulations 2002
- LAC Number 37/12: Enforcement management model (EMM) - application to chemical risks
I
41. Information
L
47. Leisure
- LAC Number 47/19: Inflatable play equipment
- LAC Number 47/20: Guidance on pinsetter / pinspotter machines in ten pin bowling centres
- LAC Number 47/21: Agreement between the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority and the Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services
50. Lifts
52. Liquified Petroleum Gases
M - S
M
56. Manual handling
57. Motor vehicle repair
- LAC Number 57/3: Safe removal of petrol from vehicles
- LAC Number 57/5: Defective locking devices identified on modern 2-post lifts
N
60. Non-Ionising radiation
O
61. Occupational health
63. Other legislation
P
64. Pesticides
65. Petroleum
- LAC number 65/49 (rev1): Inspection of workplace storage and dispensing of petroleum spirit and liaison with petroleum licensing authorities
- LAC number 65/56: Petroleum enforcement - current local authority partnership schemes (laps)
- LAC number 65/59a: Petrol Filling Stations - Dispensing control measures
- LAC number 65/61: Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 (PCA) - petrol filling stations. Model conditions of licence
- LAC number 65/62: Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 - Petrol filling stations - Licence renewal periods - Model application forms
- LAC number 65/63: Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 (PCA) - Dangerous Substances & Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002 (DSEAR) - Petrol filling stations - Atypical installations
- LAC 65/64: Petrol filling stations - Road tanker deliveries - Additional guidance to the Approved Code of Practice and Guidance [L133] Unloading petrol from road tankers
67. Priority planning
68. Protective equipment
- LAC Number 68/5: Inspection of energy-absorbing lanyards made from webbing or rope
- LAC Number 68/6: Inspection of fall arrest equipment made from webbing or rope
- LAC Number 68/8: Standards for Personal Protective Equipment
R
71. Respiratory sensitizers
S
76. Skin piercing
77. Slips, trips and falls
- LAC Number 77/1: Pedestrian slipping risks
- LAC Number 77/3: Reducing slip and trip accidents caused by floor cleaning - joint HSE/LAS Midlands project 2006/07
- LAC Number 77/4: Slips and trips 2006-07 - planned inspection and follow-up work to watch your step
- LAC Number 77/5: Preventing slips and trips in kitchens within catering
- LAC Number 77/6: Operational interventions in 2007/08 to help deliver the falls from height and slips and trips programmes
- LAC Number 77/7: Slips and Trips in Food retail
- LAC Number 77/8: Requirements for slip-resistant floor finishes under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
79. Standards
- LAC Number 79/4: Burning risks from hot surfaces in health and social care
- LAC Number 79/5: Scalding risks from hot water in health and social care
- LAC Number 79/6: Falls from windows in health and social care
- LAC Number 79/8: Bed rail risk management
- LAC Number 79/10: HSE National leads for corporate social care providers
- LAC Number 79/11: Management of health and safety in care homes 2009/2010
- LAC Number 79/12: Police inspections in 2009/2010
- LAC Number 79/13: Inspection of HM Prison Service and Scottish Prison Service 2009/2010
- LAC Number 79/14: A working arrangements protocol between the Health and Safety Executive, Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services (on behalf of Local Authorities) and the Commission for Social Care Inspection
81 Stress
T - Z
T
85. Transport
- LAC Number 85/8: Milk delivery: riding on the back of vehicles
- LAC Number 85/10: Closed circuit tv on road going vehicles
- LAC Number 85/13: (rev1). Moving goods safely project 07/08
- LAC Number 85/14: The Road Haulage and Distribution Industry - overview
- LAC Number 85/15: Car transporters
- LAC Number 85/16: An explanation of HSE’s role in the investigation of work-related road incidents and advice on responding to enquiries on managing of work-related road safety
V
88. Violence
- LAC Number 88/2: Work-related violence
- LAC Number 88/3: Work-related violence in licensed and retail premises


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